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TIL 54 oenology (wine science) students were secretly given white wine dyed with tasteless red food coloring and they overwhelmingly described the flavors as if it were red wine.

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MBwW TIL that even with the extremes of Mt Everest & the Mariana Trench the Earth has less deviation from an idealized spheroid than a billiard ball.